Archive image from page 23 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00cali Year: 1900 ( 16 STATE BOARD OE HORTICULTURE. has the culture of this fruit .been pursued on a large scale. Extensive plantings are being made about Oakdale. The western portion of Amador County is admirably adapted to fruit-growing. The same citrus belt traverses this county that encircles the northern counties of Butte, Nevada, and Placer, and oranges and lemons of remarkable size and flavor have been produced there. In Calaveras County citrus fruits have not been grown very ext
Archive image from page 23 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00cali Year: 1900 ( 16 STATE BOARD OE HORTICULTURE. has the culture of this fruit .been pursued on a large scale. Extensive plantings are being made about Oakdale. The western portion of Amador County is admirably adapted to fruit-growing. The same citrus belt traverses this county that encircles the northern counties of Butte, Nevada, and Placer, and oranges and lemons of remarkable size and flavor have been produced there. In Calaveras County citrus fruits have not been grown very extensively, but at Campo Seco there are orange trees over thirty years old, which bear good crops annu- ally, as also in the citrus belt which em- braces the northern part of the county. In Fresno County until recently very little attention was paid to growing citrus fruits. A few orange orchards in the foot- hill regions of the county showed the future possibilities of the section, and the acreage is now being rapidly extended. The oranges and lemons exhibited at the Fres- no citrus fairs in the past two years com- pared favorably with those grown in other favored sections adjoining. In Merced County the orange thrives best in the thermal belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills. There are numerous plantings in and about Merced City. Fine fruit has also been exhibited at the Cloverdale citrus fairs held there for the past four seasons, showing the possi- bilities of that section in citrus culture. It will be seen from these statements that the citrus belt of California is not confined within any mere geographical boun- The oldest orauge tree iu Northern California, at Bidwell's Bar, transplanted in 1859.
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